Like it or not, electric vehicles are the future, or at least our immediate future. The Nissan Leaf is the first we will see that has been designed from the ground up without an internal combustion engine in mind. Steve takes a trip in a hatchback to the future...

The challenge Nissan New Zealand managing director John Manley set was quite simple: spot the four-wheel drives among the line-up of new Navara utes parked outside the Antarctic Centre in Christchurch.

Journalists are a cynical bunch by nature; if they're not so to start with, they become so in time. The job does it to you; and there was plenty of cynicism in the air when Nissan revealed the US-designed Murano four-wheel drive to journalists in the Manawatu and Hawke's Bay a few weeks ago.